Looking for info in fire death of Senior Airman Logan Young
Staff, wire reports
An anonymous donor has pledged $15,000 toward the reward in the ongoing investigation of Sunday’s Berkeley County arson fire that resulted in the fatal injury of a West Virginia Air National Guard firefighter.
Up to $20,000 is now being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. Anyone with any information is urged to call the West Virginia Arson Hotline at 1-800-233-3473.
Senior Airman Logan Young of the 167th Airlift Wing died Sunday while responding to the fire in Kearneysville, the West Virginia National Guard said in a statement Monday.
“Logan stepped up to defend our country and protect our freedoms, and served as a first responder here at home,” Gov. Jim Justice said in a statement. “We owe everything we have to brave men and women like him.”
Young, 30, a Martinsburg resident, joined the Air National Guard in 2018 and served as a fire fighter in the 167th Civil Engineer Squadron. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 2011, was deployed to the Middle East in 2014, and worked as a military police officer before transitioning into the Air National Guard, where he was employed full time as a fire fighter.
The fatal fire was connected to a nearby fire at another vacant structure reported about 20 minutes earlier, the West Virginia State Fire Marshal’s Office said in a statement. Investigators determined both were the result of arson.
The State Fire Marshal’s Office and West Virginia State Police continue to investigate.
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